The Anthropocene is marked by
the massive degradation of our planet's life support systems which is affecting
all species. The destruction of ecosystems and species within them is having a
disastrous impact upon people’s wellbeing.This is a critical situation that demands urgent action. This panel of
experts will illustrate the impact human activity is having on the Earth's
vital ecosystems and what can be done to create a sustainable future.

Moderator: Keith Martin, Executive Director, CUGH, USA

Speakers:

Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief, The Lancet, UK

Juli Trtanj, Research Lead, Climate Program Office, National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration, USA

The Canada Gairdner Global Health Award is
given annually to an individual who has made seminal discoveries or major
scientific advances in any one of four areas of basic science, clinical
science, population health or environmental health. These discoveries have
made, or have the potential to make, a significant impact on health outcomes in
the developing world.

Translating Research to Policy: Creating and
Implementing Evidence-Based Policies for the Prevention and Early Detection of
Women’s Cancers

More than 88% of cervical cancer deaths and 50%
of breast cancer deaths occur in LMICs. Mortality rates for breast and cervical
cancer are significantly higher for women in less-developed regions due to
limited prevention, early detection, and diagnostic capacity. Substantial
improvements in quality of life and survival could be achieved in low-resource
settings. A combination of traditional and recent innovative solutions has
great potential to save women’s lives around the world. This panel will address
the importance of translating advances in cervical and breast cancer
prevention, detection, and diagnosis into effective policies and practice in
LMICs. This can drive evidence-based policy decisions to improve health
outcomes of women worldwide.

Michele
Bloch, Chief, Tobacco Control Research Branch, National Cancer Institute
of the NIH, USA

Mauricio
Maza, Chief Medical Officer, Basic Health International, USA

CS18: CONCURRENT SESSION

Room: International Ballroom West

Conversation with Donors

A discussion with representatives from leading international
donor organizations about their funding priorities. in the coming years.
Panelists will also share information about their granting mechanisms.

Pollution related
disease (PRD) is a massive and growing global problem. Diseases caused by pollution are responsible for 9 million premature deaths each year, almost three
times as many deaths as result from AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined.
More than 90% of deaths due to PRD occur in low- and middle-income countries
(LMICs). The nature of pollution is changing. In developing countries, levels
of ambient air pollution, toxic chemical pollution and soil pollution are
increasing as consequence of urbanization, increasing motor vehicle use and the
proliferation of toxic chemicals, pesticides and polluting industries.
Pollution can be prevented. This panel will share cost effective pollution
control strategies that have been developed and successfully deployed. It will
also share information about the Global Commission on Pollution & Health.
The Commission’s report, supported by The Lancet, and the Global Alliance on
Health and Pollution, will be published in early 2017.

Make Your Mark: Conquering Challenges to Establish a
Career in Global Health

This session will present students and trainees
with a range of perspectives on creating a career in global health. A panel of
professionals will share their personal experience in achieving their current
positions in the field and the challenges that they faced along the way.
Specifically, they will speak to conquering student debt, navigating
institutional and international bureaucracy, and identifying a niche in the
ever-expanding world of global health. This panel discussion will provide
attendees with realistic advice on networking and engaging in the professional
environment at home and abroad. The brief discussion will be followed by an
extended Q&A, during which attendees will have the unique opportunity to
submit questions to the speakers.

This session will explore various topics related to U.S. trade compliance in the global health arena. The speakers will discuss how their institutions support the import and export of materials as well a compliance with U.S. laws related to working with foreign nationals. Some topics that will be addressed include: Import and export licenses required for the shipment of certain biological goods and clinical care equipment; The rare instances where a license may be required in global health to share technical data with a foreign national; Dealing with institutions and citizens from sanctioned countries, in particular, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria; Understanding the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Recommendations on how to establish a support system in academia for global health trade compliance will be discussed as well as resources that could be used in the absence of such support structures.Moderator: Mark Stomski,Assistant Vice Provost for Export Control, University of Washington, USA

Speakers: Kelly Hochstetler, Director in the Office of Export Contols, University of Virginia, USAJanet Simons, Director, Research Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA

·Impacts of
Environmental Change on Quality and Yield of Fruits and Vegetables:
Relevance for the Global Burden of Non-Communicable Disease Pauline Scheelbeek, London School of Health and Tropical Medicine, UK

Over the course of
the past year, a diverse group of stakeholders has been developing a monitoring
framework to accompany the 2015 WHO report “Strategies toward ending
preventable maternal mortality (EPMM).” The process has focused on identifying
indicators to address both the proximal and distal causes of maternal morbidity
and mortality as outlined by the 11 “key themes” in the EPMM Strategies report.
This panel will examine the EPMM Strategies and its monitoring framework in
light of country implementation and monitoring needs and its role within both
the larger maternal health agenda (guided by the Global Strategy and SDGs) and
other efforts in global health monitoring (e.g. human rights).

The Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) was
launched in February 2014 and is a growing partnership of over 50 nations,
international organizations, and non-governmental stakeholders to help build
countries’ capacity to help create a world secure from infectious disease
threats. GHSA acknowledges the essential need for a multilateral and
multi-sectoral approach to strengthen both the global capacity and nations'
capacity to prevent, detect, and respond to infectious diseases threats.
This session will review the successes and limitations of GHSA in its efforts
to strengthen both the global capacity and nations’ capacity to prevent,
detect, and respond to human and animal infectious diseases threats whether
naturally occurring or accidentally or deliberately spread.

Moderator:
Thomas Quinn, Director, Johns Hopkins University, USA

Speakers:

Bonnie
Jenkins, U.S. Dept. of State Coordinator, Threat Reduction Programs,
Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, USA

Jonathan
Quick, President and CEO, Management Sciences for Health, USA

This session will discuss the results from the GHFP-II and CUGH Recent Graduates Study. The study aimed to better understand the experiences of gradutes from master’s level global health programs when seeking jobs and the fit of graduate program curricula and workplace demand. Attendees can expect to leave with clearer expectations for transitioning into the global health workforce and new tools and resources to gain in-demand skills.

This interactive session will include introductory remarks
by the panelists followed by questions and comments from the audience to help
strategize how National Institutes of Health programs can help advance global
health research and adapt to meet the needs of a changing world. How can
progress on HIV/AIDS, malaria and TB be continued while also combatting the
rising tide of cancer, heart disease, substance abuse and other chronic
diseases? What new technologies can be deployed to better diagnose and treat
patients living in in low-resource settings?

More than half the world’s population lives in
urban areas, and this number is expected to increase to 5.1 billion by 2050. An
estimated 863 million people currently live in urban slum conditions. The
symposium will discuss community-based research in the epidemiology of chronic
respiratory diseases in urban and rural regions of Latin America, Africa, and
Asia. It will focus on potential strategies for implementation of interventions
to improve health outcomes and quality of life for people living with chronic
respiratory diseases in each country. The discussion will be grounded in an
appreciation for the context-specific barriers and facilitators to effective
implementation of these intervention strategies.

The United Nations has declared 2012-2020 as
the “Decade of Action for Road Safety” to achieve global progress. With nearly
1.2 million deaths each year and estimates of 20-50 million non-fatal injuries,
road traffic injury (RTI) is an important but often neglected global public
health burden.Reducing the RTI problem
requires partnerships and collaborations across all sectors of civil society.The recently released global burden of
disease report (Lancet, Dec 2012) and more recent CDC MMWR report outline how
RTI rates are increasing in varied settings, with the major burden occurring in
low and middle income locations.This
panel will inform conference participants about the global public health burden
of RTI and approaches to injury prevention and control.

Changing weather and climate patterns,
biodiversity loss, land use change, and other global ecosystem changes will
characterize the Anthropocene. These changes are exacerbating existing and
creating new risks to human and animal health, and to sustainability,
particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Policy- and decision-makers
need evidence of current impacts and projections of future risks and on options
for preparing for and managing risks.Panelists will illustrate not just the challenges, but also the
opportunities to improve evidence-based risk management and policy development
to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by collaborating across sectors;
increasing the use of environmental information; identifying thresholds for
action; and explicitly considering the social, cultural, and political contexts
within which responses will be implemented.

David
Bunn, Director,
California Department of Conservation, University of California, Davis, USA

CS28: CONCURRENT SESSION
Room: Georgetown E/W

Fake Medicines: An Unseen Threat to Global Health

What do medicines, criminals, global health and
the internet have in common? With an estimated multi-billion dollar market,
falsified medicines are a silent and urgent threat in health facilities,
pharmacies, grocery stores, online stores, and homes worldwide. Falsified medicines
expose patients, health systems, and governments to increases in morbidity,
mortality, economic losses, and drug resistance. No single solution exists for
securing the global medicines supply chain; rather a multi-sector “collective
impact” approach is urgently required. This symposium provides perspectives
from the front-line - including regulators, industry, academia, and
implementers - on protecting medicines from falsification.

Addressing Data and Research Gaps to Advance the Health
of Adolescent Girls and Young Women

This panel will focus on the research agenda
needed to improve health outcomes for adolescent girls and young women. There
is much we don’t know about this vulnerable population globally. Major gaps in
data, including demographics, dis-aggregations, and output indicators,
complicate efforts to reach adolescent girls with health programs tailored to
meet their needs. There also is a stark need for R&D to discover new
products and innovations. Nutrition, in particular, represents an area where
much more research is needed to understand the range of issues adolescent girls
face, and how programs can be built to complement other critical health
interventions.

Ezekiel
Emmanuel, Senior Fellow,
Center for American Progress, University of Pennsylvania, USA

CS32: CONCURRENT SESSION
Room: Columbia 8/11/12

Making
the Global to Local Link in Academia: Concepts and Models

Global/local initiatives reflect an effort to link the siloed
fields of global health and (domestic) community engagement to help faculty and
students recognize the value of bi-directional learning and the importance of
providing care and conducting research in a way that supports vulnerable
members of society wherever they may be. The concepts underlying
global/local education are undertheorized and universities struggle to make the
global/local link in the absence of a conceptual framework or guiding
models. This panel will provide both: an understanding of the conceptual
scholarship in this area to help faculty give voice to this critical movement
within their own institutions and concrete models they can adapt and
apply.